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The arrival of the new digital environment has led to a revolution in the creation and the access to the information. One of the most remarkable consequences of this phenomenon is the Big Data, which refers to the huge amount of digitalized data that is used by distinct stakeholders for their analysis and use with different goals. This paper analyzes the consequences in the context of Personal Data Protection and lists the challenges and problems the Big Data implies in order to the legal principles that defend the privacy of the citizens.

Even if only a small part of the documentary heritage is digitalized it has been an increase of its presence on the Internet in the last few years. In addition to the preservation it’s also important that this documentation be accessible to everyone in the context of an open data policy that allows the reutilization of the digitalized heritage in other areas. In this regard it’s distinguished the public information sector which is subject to be seized in commercial and social activities from other stored content and collections sector which generate less commercial interest. In any case the conservation and diffusion of the digital heritage is a very expensive task that needs the collaboration of the private sector, that is contained in the Directive (2013/37/EU) of the European Parliament regarding the information of the public sector, and that also contains the collections drawn from archives, libraries and museums.